Trigun Fan Fiction ❯ To Understand ❯ The CIty ( Chapter 2 )

Disclaimer: I do not own Trigun and this fic has been nagging my brain for sometime now so please be nice! The timeline? Ten months after the final fight.

The double suns were shining bright sending in it's warm bright rays into the small home that belongs to now known as Vince and Eriks or better known as Vash the Stampede and Knives Millions. Gently she stirred smelling something she had forgotten about mostly within the past two days… food. She raised her head before brushing honey strands out of her face. When she was upright she squint her eyes a bit in the suns' rays and looked at the person cooking. She wanted to squeal in shock but pain in her neck made that cut short.

"Hold on a second. When I'm done cooking I'll rub your neck. I figured it would hurt with the way your tall body was hunched over."

The teenager smiled at her, before going back to the stove. Millie turned her sore neck a bit and saw the ropes neatly rolled up on the chair. She glanced at knives… who seemed to be staring over her shoulder muttering words that sounded like 'idiot' or 'loser'… something along those lines. She looked at the window over Knives' shoulder and could've laughed. Vash who had been on the couch the night before was now sprawled out half on the floor the other half on the couch drooling rather heavily. Every now and again he would mutter something that sounded like 'flying doughnuts' or 'Salmon Sandwich'. Meryl let out a sad sigh and walked over to Vash poking him with her index finger.

"Wakey, Wakey, eggs, and Bakey…." She gave a child like grin when his eyes popped open. "Well actually not eggs and bacon but eggs and ham…" She giggled when he stood and looked at her then the chair; he shrugged and stood up with his hair matted down instead of his usual spikes.

"Close enough." He muttered sleepily and he sat at the table with Millie and knives wiping away the drool with the bottom of his shirt. Meryl served them all breakfast but ate none herself while she rubbed the sore spot in Millie's neck.

"I'm leaving you know…" The teenager said gently slightly wondering if they'd care or not if she left.

"Why?" Millie asked.

"I must find out everything for my sake… both me here and the one in there." She motioned towards the bedroom.

"Do you even know where to start?" Millie asked innocently.

"I have an idea…" The teenager whispered. "A long time ago before Meryl took the job at Bernardeli; she met a scientist name Jacob. Jacob D. Wolfwood." She said as Millie stiffened under her grasp.

"Wolfwood?"

"Yes… He was the one who gave me this mark." She turned her back to the group and lowered the shirt she wore showing a black rose tattoo on her right shoulder blade. She then fixed the shirt and picked up the doctor's lab coat she wore.

"That man… had the same one on his shoulder."

"He was a clone." She said. "Originals have them on their shoulder blades." She said before flashing a happy smile. "I really should get going before he realizes I'm going to see the Scientist and decides to take him out."

"Someone should really go with you." Vash said in between bites ready to say something else.

"Thanks for volunteering brother…" Knives said knowing Vash was going to try and turn this around to make him spend time with the girl.

"Huh?" Vash asked.

"That's a wonderful idea. I'll be glad to know that Mr. Vash is taking care of the young Meryl." Millie grinned while Meryl frowned.

"You mean me and the blonde oaf?" Meryl asked frowning. "Whatever just be ready soon…" She scowled a bit before going to check up on her true self… the older Meryl. She brushed strand of her bangs out of her face before smiling. "How you became attached to him I don't know…" She whispered.

"Would you stop humming already?" Vash asked gently not wanting to piss off the teenager. He managed to do so once already and his head was still stinging from the blow

"I am… We're sleeping here tonight!" She stopped the horse she was riding on and unloaded the bag of stuff she had bought from the store. She began to pitch a tent, and made a fire humming the entire time. She was aware that Vash was watching… apparently trying to make sense of the confusion. She wasn't even sure yet, but she knew the Jacob dude would be able to help in one sense or another. "He has to be able to help…"

"Why do you put so much care in the unconscious?" Knives watched Millie brush out Meryl's bangs before turning on the blow dryer to dry it straight.

"She is my friend… I'm sure she'd try to do the same for me…" Millie let out half of the truth and knives sensed this almost immediately.

"Why do you put so much care into the unconscious?" He asked again.

"I already…" She looked at him then lowered her eyes and went back to the task of styling her hair a bit. "It's my fault she's hurt." Millie admitted. "You see Meryl and I were running from the man that had attempted to kill her the first time. So after we had stolen a couple of horses and eaten the food we had it was time to rest a little. We were taking shifts to watch out for the man knowing it had been way too easy. Just when it was my turn to take shift I had stayed on my post but then it began to rain. I had immediately become preoccupied with other thoughts and I hadn't seen the man creep up behind us. Before I knew anything I heard the gun shot go off and I had been slammed to the ground. Meryl was holding her stomach and I realized my mistake in it all. I aimed my stun gun at the man and he dodged it with ease. He laughed and said something about 'One AP project down one more to go.'"

"That's the thing with you spiders. So much compassion for others and it gets you killed. You Spiders just need to realize that and just understand that all of you will die because of this 'compassion'." Knives said bitterly. Mille tensed up as anger welled up inside of her. She hadn't believed it when she heard that Vash's brother had negative views on the way humans live but he was disturbing to her and it made her angry.

"Well, I guess it's easy for someone who had no compassion shown towards him from one of these 'spiders' to say such a thing." Her voice came out bitter. She wasn't sure what brought up the quick temper in her but since the whole thing with Meryl she had been much too easy to tick off.

"I could care little for this compassion. My brother and I are superior to the pathetic human race, but he stupidly thinks he could easily blend in and live life as one of you."

"There is nothing wrong with the human race." She turned off the blow dryer and looked him in the face mildly mesmerized with how much he indeed looked like Vash but was different because of the cold smirk on his face. "Humans are intelligent beings that merely just try to live life one day at a time looking for a happiness that desperately needs to be filled. While in theory such a thing is preposterous and silly it is actually the only to live. TO define who you really are is how you affect the lives around. I'm sorry you do not understand that Me. Knives Millions!!" She said glaring at him while the corner of his mouth twitched a bit while he watched the fire in her eyes light up.

He just turned from her and went back to his room closing the door behind him while taking off the bandages the doctor had put on. He inspected the gunshot wounds and saw that they had pretty much healed up… He stretched out his arms wincing slightly as pain shop up his right arm. That one was still tender but one arm was enough to handle a gun. A crash from the kitchen made him look at the door and muttering form the girl sounded. For that one moment he was hesitant about his plans on destroying the human race… Maybe if he observed this girl he could find a major flaw one bigger than compassion in humans and take them out quicker.

"Morning!" She chimed when Vash had set breakfast before her. She stared at before eating it and she smiled a little at him.

"Hurry up!" Vash stood up with his 'serious' face on. "We have a long ways to go!" He said letting his voice get deeper than usual. She shook her head and began to eat the food before her.

"I think we should split up when we get there…" She said to Vash who only frowned. "I mean what good looking older guy would be doing with a quirky fourteen year old?" She said playing up Vash while hiding her own motive. Vash of course took the compliment straight to the head and didn't hear the concealing tone she had.

"I am good looking aren't I?" He posed several times for her making her roll her eyes at him.

"Yeah… and I think we should get going. By time we get there the night life should just start waking up and it'll be party central." She said placing her utensils in a bag and proceeded to get onto her horse.

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Okay this came out shorter than expected but I guess I wanted to leave the real interesting fun for the next chapter so review okay?